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Okay. I am logged into my Winsecrets account. When I attempt to click on the link for the full article, I am asked to log in again. When I do, I am told my email or pw is incorrect. How can that be, when I just logged in with the same credentials???

I am surprised no one has mentioned a totally free program for personal use called Irfan View. I have a Brother multifunction printer with scanner and I decided I did not like the included scanner software, including the cumbersome Paperport, so I went to Irfan View. Just clicking on the icon opens a blank window, go to the end of the file drop down and click on acquire batch scanning, and click on ok on the next small window. From there you can set whatever properties you want (or just use the default properties) and do a pre-scan to change your image boundaries and then run a scan. Save it wherever you want by using file – save as … , and you are done.

X2! Though my needs are not extensive, I use IrfanView with a Brother MFC with excellent results.

I work as a senior technical manager in the printing industry. jstanley got his terms mixed up. Color perception requires 3 things: light, the object being viewed, and the eyes. Objects appear a certain color because certain wavelengths of light are absorbed, and others reflected. Reflected light is the color we see. Dyes and pigments are subtractive (add them together to “subtract” color, (ultimately resulting in black) and wavelengths of light are added together to ultimately get white. White pigments printed on dark paper do not have the opacity to adequately cover at the printing film thicknesses involved to appear white. The only way I know to do this is to print the dark background, and print white fonts/images, which is a printing nothing in those areas.
If there is another way, I’d certainly like to know, but one would have to violate the laws of physics to do so…